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title: 'DevOps Engineer at Modus'
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# DevOps Engineer at Modus

- **Company:** Modus
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-05-26
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/modus/be193875-e3d9-4fc6-a7ee-546ffce3629c

## Job description

## About Modus

We’re building the future of audit. Modus Audit is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners to invest in and modernize accounting firms using Agentic AI. We streamline financial audits from the ground up — starting with real customers and real revenue. We've partnered with our first firm, and are rapidly growing our engineering team to help us build and deploy our agents at scale. We’re a small, execution-focused team. If you're excited by fast feedback loops, messy real-world data, and applied AI with business impact — we’d love to talk.

## Why this role matters

Modus runs on infrastructure that touches sensitive financial data across multiple customer firms. As we partner with more accounting firms, we need someone who can keep our production environment healthy day-to-day, rebuild legacy IT into something modern, and bring new firms onto our platform cleanly. You'll work closely with the head of engineering, and we're looking for someone who can grow into a DevOps leader at Modus - owning more of the design and architecture over time as the team and platform scale.

## What you'll do

- Day-to-day infrastructure - operating our multi-tenant deployments, monitoring, deploys, incident response, and the work it takes to keep production boring
- Rebuilding CPA IT from the ground up - one modern IT platform that every Modus firm shares. Identity, endpoints, networking, file storage — scalable, standardized, and smart, so every firm we acquire plugs into the same system instead of inheriting a legacy stack
- Integrating newly acquired firms - onboarding each new firm onto Modus's platform, migrating users and data, and making sure compliance and security are tight from day one
- Supporting engineering with deploys, CI/CD, observability, and the daily plumbing of a fast-moving team

## What we look for

- Solid experience operating AWS infrastructure in production — VPCs, IAM, EC2/ECS/EKS, RDS, the usual
- Comfortable with Terraform (or equivalent IaC), Linux, and scripting in Python or Bash
- IT generalist instincts: identity providers, endpoint management, networking, the practical side of getting a workplace running
- Curious and fast to learn — you pick up new tools and stacks quickly, and aren't fazed by an unfamiliar problem
- Strong follow-through — when something breaks, you own it until it's fixed; when something's manual, you automate it
- Comfortable working closely with a hands-on engineering lead who'll set direction and review your work

## Compensation

- Competitive base salary ($80K–$120K depending on experience)
- Healthcare benefits
- In-person office in NYC with team meals, fast iteration cycles, and real user exposure

## About Modus

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Modus is an AI-native audit technology platform and holding company that empowers the accounting industry through strategic partnerships and technology investment.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, USA
- **Founded**: 2021
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Artificial Intelligence, Fintech, SaaS, Accounting Technology
- **Target customers**: B2B – audit-first accounting firms and accounting industry professionals
- **Mission**: To accelerate technology development and transform audit practices by combining AI with a strategic holding company approach.

## Products & Services
- **Modus Audit Platform**: An AI-native platform designed to streamline and modernize audit workflows for accounting firms. The company also acts as a holding company, investing in and partnering with growing audit-first firms to provide technological and capital support.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – $85M (Seed & Series A, most recent round in April 2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed in available sources
- **Growth Signals**: Raised $85M in Series A funding in April 2026, indicating strong investor confidence and rapid scaling ambitions. Job postings for product and engineering roles suggest active team building.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native architecture**: Built from the ground up for modern audit needs, unlike legacy systems.
- **Holding company model**: Combines technology development with strategic investments in accounting firms, creating a unique ecosystem that aligns incentives and accelerates adoption.
- **Focus on audit-first firms**: Niche specialization in the audit segment of accounting, positioning Modus as a targeted disruptor.

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding its AI audit platform to more accounting firms.
- Investing in and acquiring growing audit-first practices to integrate technology and scale operations.
- Building out the engineering and product team to accelerate product development.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Early-stage startup environment (founded 2021) with the backing of $85M in funding, offering the opportunity to shape an AI-first product in a traditional industry.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Specific policy not disclosed; headquartered in New York with potential for remote flexibility (typical for tech startups).
- **Engineering culture**: Building a cutting-edge AI-native platform; roles like Member of Technical Staff and Product Manager suggest a focus on strong technical talent and product-led growth.

## Sources
1. [strike.fyi – Modus](https://strike.fyi/c/modus-com)
2. [StartupHub.ai – Modus Profile](https://www.startuphub.ai/startups/modus)
3. [Ashby Careers – Modus Job Postings](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/modus)

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